Brick Lane Street Art
the walls change every week
An ever-changing open-air gallery of murals and stencils around Brick Lane, free to explore, where famous names paint beside unknowns.
Free to visit · Shoreditch · Shoreditch High Street · E1 6QL
Opening: Open access · best in daylight
The streets around Brick Lane are one of the world's great open-air street-art galleries, and exploring them costs nothing. Shutters, doorways, whole building ends and back alleys are covered in murals, stencils and paste-ups, and the display changes constantly as walls are painted over and reborn.
This is where international names and local unknowns work side by side. Pieces by some of the biggest figures in the scene have appeared here over the years, and because the walls turn over so fast, the collection is never the same twice, the piece you photograph today may be gone next month.
You can wander and find it yourself, drifting down Hanbury Street, Fournier Street and the lanes off Brick Lane, or join one of the many free-to-follow self-guided routes online. Either way it is a free, living, ever-renewing gallery in the heart of the East End.
Getting there: Around Brick Lane and its side streets, easiest from Shoreditch High Street or Liverpool Street.
Best time to go: A weekend afternoon when the area is liveliest, though the art is there any day.
Insider tip: Just wander rather than hunting specific pieces, since the walls are repainted constantly and half the fun is what you stumble on. Hanbury Street and the yards off the Old Truman Brewery are reliably rich.
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